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From: Alan Beattie <>
Subject: Re: [SHETLAND] A list of Immigrants to South Australia
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 15:37:11 +0100
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Many thanks indeed and well guessed there, Robyn. Ann was a first cousin
to Gilbert Beattie and later became his sister-in-law when he married,
as his second wife, her sister Jane Beattie.

Ann I knew about from Norah's book and knew her husband's name. The
combination means that I now know descendants in Adelaide in Tasmania. I
had not had this comment from the records, though. Some one could write,
because her father knew of her marriage in Adelaide - he told the poor
law as much when he applied for relief in the early 1880s.

Regards,

Alan



> Still wading through my 'inherited' treasure and I have come across
> some notes in Highland Destitution material held in the NAS, quite
> detailed on people getting an assisted passage to South Australia in
> in the 1850s. If any of these people belong to anyone let me know and
> I'll pass on the very helpful and informative comments next to their
> names.

> William Nicolson (age 30) and his new wife Elizabeth S Nicolson (24)
> of Sandsting
> Catherine Tait (29) Tingwall
> Jane Ninianson (26) Sandsting
> Helen Ninianson (21) Sandsting
> Margaret Garriock (31) Weisdale
> Jane Mitchell (26) Sandsting
> Inga Dalziell (28) Sandsting
> Barbara Walterson (28) Sandsting
> Murray Tait (20) Bressay
> Elizabeth Smith (21) Lerwick
> Robina Millar (18) Lerwick
> Ann Beattie (19) Lerwick

> (One of yours Alan? I'll save you an email! Comments read: "Has
> resided with her father - a common labourer. Chiefly employed in
> knitting shawls, carrying peats and assisting her mother in the
> management of the younger members of the family except during six
> months when she was employed as a domestic servant in a small family
> of limited means. Can read but not write. Would apparently by proper
> training be better suited for domestic rather than outdoor work.)

> Joan Laurenson (18) Lerwick
> Elizabeth Tait (22) Gulberwick
> Jemima Thomson (20) Bressay
> Catherine Smith (22) Fladdabister
> Mary Thomson (23) Sandsting
> Henderson Jameson (25) Bressay
> Agnes Robertson (22) Lunnasting
> Barbara Hughson (28) Lerwick


> Robyn Hukin
> Western Australia

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